What can you set under Availability?

Answer

An Availability is a fixed time slot on certain days in which guests can book a reservation type, for example Dinner from 16:30 to 21:30. You set it under Restaurant > Availability.

Where to find it

Menu Restaurant > tab Availability (/Horeca). New: button Add > Availability. Existing: click the line.

Explanation

An Availability determines when a reservation type can be booked online. The guest only sees times that fall within a time slot of an active and visible Availability, on a date you have ticked, and within the opening times of that day. Booking manually by staff is always possible. An Availability can have up to five time slots, for example lunch and dinner. Under Time slot 1 you add a time slot with Add time slot (following on from the previous one); from Time slot 2 you remove a time slot with the bin. The times in the widget follow the Time interval between reservations from Reservation settings. You can also use an Availability as an extra choice: for example under the type Dinner put the Availabilities A la carte, Buffet and Barbecue, and the guest chooses one of these while reserving.

Buttons and settings

Name	What it does	When you use it	Note
Name	The name of the Availability, at most 20 characters. The name is not visible in the widget or when booking manually; it is only for you.	Choose a clear name, such as Lunch or Dinner.	With more languages on you fill in the name per language.
Maximum number of characters	The counter below the name field: how many characters still fit (at most 20).	While typing.	-
Description	An internal note on the Availability. Not visible in the widget or when booking manually.	For your own notes.	-
Colour	The colour in the reservation overview.	To tell Availabilities apart.	Only visible internally.
Show in widget	With Yes the Availability, with the corresponding reservation types, is in the widget. Default Yes for a new Availability.	Set to No for an Availability you only use yourself.	You only see this choice with the add-on Online reservations. An Availability that is not visible yields no online times.
Active	An active Availability can be used right away when booking manually. Only for an existing Availability.	Turn off to stop it temporarily without deleting it.	A deleted Availability can be activated again: Jimani then asks whether you want to restore it.
Guest groups (widget fields)	Per guest group (for example adults, children, toddlers) you choose Yes or No. You can set up to five guest groups. Guest group 1 is on Yes by default. If you have more than one group active and turn this on, the Availability is only shown when guests have been selected for all active groups.	If you ask for numbers per type of guest, for example for a children's party.	You must turn on at least one group, otherwise the message Select a field follows. You give the names of the groups under Menu and settings (Manage the menu settings, block Guest groups).
Guest group	The name of a guest group as you gave it in the menu settings. The block Guest groups is under Menu and settings and allows up to five guest groups.	Set once; afterwards you choose per Availability which groups take part.	Guest group 1 cannot be turned off.
Reservation type	The reservation types that fall within this Availability. You can choose more than one and with Select all you choose them all. With the plus button you create a new type right away.	After creating your types.	A reservation type belongs to one Availability.
Date	The calendar in which you tick on which days the Availability applies. You choose single days, weeks or months by clicking and page to other years with the arrows.	Always; without a day the Availability applies nowhere.	If you save without a date, the message Select a date follows.
Time slot	A block with Available from and Available until. You can use at most five time slots. Time slot 1 has the button Add time slot, Time slot 2 up to and including 5 have the button Remove time slot.	For a day with two moments, such as lunch and dinner.	Time slots may not overlap.
Available from	The start time of the time slot. A guest can choose a time from this time.	For example 16:30 for dinner.	Both Available from and Available until must be filled in.
Available until	The end time of the time slot: the last time a guest can still choose to start.	For example 21:30 for dinner.	Must be later than Available from. The reservation duration comes on top of that.

Messages

Message	What it means	What you do
Select a field	No guest group (widget field) has been set to Yes.	Set at least Guest group 1 to Yes.
Select a date	No date has been chosen in the calendar.	Tick the days on which the Availability applies.
Time slot {0} and time slot {1} overlap. Choose times that do not overlap.	Two time slots overlap.	Adjust the times.
For time slot {0} fill in both Available from and Available until.	A time slot is only half filled in.	Fill in both times or remove the time slot.
For time slot {0}, Available until must be later than Available from.	The end time is before or equal to the start time.	Set the end time later.
There is no free hour left on this day for an extra time slot.	No extra time slot fits following on from the last time slot.	Adjust the existing time slots.

Related

What can you set under Reservation types?, Why do I see no times in the reservation widget?

Keywords: availability, time slot, dinner lunch times, online reservation times, guest group, adults children, times in the widget

Last checked: 2026-10-16

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